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Beer, BBQ, Raspberry Pi, and Time Series
With the weekend approaching it is always amazing to see what people do with technology. For many of us, sitting around having a Beer with some great BBQ is the picture of happiness. But what do you do if you are...
Announcing the InfluxData Sandbox
Today I’m happy to announce the InfluxData sandbox. The sandbox runs the entire suite of InfluxData products for use as a learning tool. With all of our previous full stack tutorials, such as this one for Kapacitor, you need to install each of...
Path to 1 Billion Time Series: InfluxDB High Cardinality Indexing Ready for Testing
One of the long-standing requests we’ve had for InfluxDB is to support a large number of time series. That is, a very high cardinality in the number of unique time series that the database stores. While we currently have customers with...
InfluxDB and the /debug/vars Endpoint
Like many Go programs with an HTTP server, InfluxDB exposes some diagnostic information over the /debug/vars endpoint. Because the information we expose there is simply JSON, it should be very straightforward to expose InfluxDB’s diagnostics to other custom utilities that you might...
tick-charts Update
This is an update to an earlier blog post I did on tick-charts, the project to make the InfluxData stack as easy to run on Kubernetes as possible. While developing the project I’ve learned that some of the original implementation decisions...
Kubernetes Metrics Addition - A Shoutout to our contributors!
Hopefully you have already read Nathan’s blog on the exciting news about the new version of Telegraf and Kapacitor. We are especially proud of the added Kubernetes metrics that can now be collected and acted upon. As an open source platform,...
We're going to GrafanaCon 2016
We are excited to let you know that we will be at GrafanaCon2016 which will be held at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the Hudson River in NYC. Paul Dix, our CTO, will be there to meet with any attendee...
InfluxData's Q&A Session for Oct 20: Intro to Kapacitor for Alerting and Anomaly Detection
We have posted the video archive for the Oct 13: Intro to Telegraf and the Plugin Ecosystem and the following is a recap of the Q&A session during the training. Q: What determines choosing batch or stream? A: Choosing batch vs stream...
InfluxData's Q&A Session for Oct 13: Intro to InfluxDB Telegraf and the Plugin Ecosystem
We have posted the video archive for the Oct 13: Intro to InfluxDB Telegraf and the Plugin Ecosystem and the following is a recap of the Q&A session during the training. Q: Is Raspberry Pi supported? I had a problem with memory...
Monitoring and alerting with Kapacitor now available on InfluxData InfluxDB Cloud
Today we’ve made Kapacitor, the project for monitoring and alerting on time series data, available on our AWS backed InfluxData InfluxDB Cloud offering. Existing and new InfluxDB Cloud customers can now add a fully managed instance of Kapacitor starting at $200...